New Tool Now Available to Help Educators Meet the Individualized Cultural and Linguistic Needs of Students—Academic and Linguistic Demands: Creating Access to the Next Generation Learning Standards in English Language Arts for Linguistically Diverse Learners (ALDs)

This tool, developed with input from more than 100 New York State educators of English Language Learners, provides a linguistic lens through which to examine the Next Generation ELA Learning Standards.
Provides guidance to ensure alignment with the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework (CRSE) and to meet the needs of students with disabilities, early learning students, and students in Home Language Arts classes.
Empowers teachers to better design instructional scaffolds that address individual student needs based on their proficiency levels within the different language modalities.
Identifies specific Academic Demand and Linguistic Demands necessary for students to achieve every learning standard at every grade level.
Provides exemplary language prompts to support teacher understanding of how to design instruction for each Linguistic Demand.
The full report is available on the Academic and Linguistic Demands webpage.
Contact the Office of Bilingual Education and World Languages obewl@nysed.gov for more information.